Being Boring vs Checkpoint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Being Boring
Engage in simple, repetitive tasks to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and enhance focus. This app offers various interactive exercises designed to clear the mind and boost creativity through mindful engagement.
- Interactive touch-based exercises
- Gravity-sensitive dot manipulation
- Swipe-based dot interaction
- Line drawing connection game
- Magnet-like dot attraction
- Finger painting within shapes
- Number matching game
- Number counting exercise
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Just be, right now. Relax and meditate for a short while with Being Boring for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Concentrate on a repetitive and monotone task for a few minutes - like a game without a goal. Being Boring can help you reduce stress, focus, clear your mind and to kickstart your creativity. So the next time you have a few moments to spare, practice mindfulness by being boring. Here are the different things you can do in Being Boring (double tap or long press on the screen to choose): • Touch - Touch a dot and it disappears to appear somewhere else and then you can touch that and so on • Gravity - Three dots move depending on how you move your device • Swipe - Swipe the dot and it will glide away and bounce off the edges of the screen • Connect - By touching a dot a line between that dot and the previous dot is drawn • Magnet - Drag a dot from the center of the screen and release it and will be drawn back by a magnet • Paint - Draw with your finger within a shape and it will empty a few seconds after the last touch • Numbers - Choose the correct number from 1 to 9 from random buttons • Count - Scroll a list of numbers from 1 to 999
Checkpoint
This app helps you build healthy habits and practice mindfulness through daily prompts and guided breathing exercises. It focuses on small, consistent efforts and respects your data privacy by storing everything locally on your device.
- Mindfulness check-ins with custom prompts
- Guided breathing exercises
- Habit tracking based on behavioral research
- Progress tracking towards savings goals
- Private by design, local data storage
- Open source
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Checkpoint is a mindfulness and habit-tracking app built around one idea: small, consistent moments add up. The goal is to encourage healthy behaviors while respecting data privacy. MINDFULNESS CHECK-INS Quiet notifications arrive throughout your day with a short prompt to pause and notice. Fully configurable frequency, hours, days, and messages. BREATHING Four preset research-backed breathing patterns and the ability to make your own. Optional timer to dedicate time to disconnect. HABIT TRACKING Built around the habit loop framework from behavioral research. Each habit earns progress toward a tangible savings goal. Habits carry forward automatically when a goal is reached. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No costs. No analytics. Everything lives on your device. Open source under the MIT license. https://github.com/fresh37/checkpoint-ios
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Checkpoint at 5.0 against Being Boring's 4.6. Checkpoint also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Being Boring's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Checkpoint holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Being Boring has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Being Boring's written reviews are positive against 100% of Checkpoint's.
| Parameter | Being Boring | Checkpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 26.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Borg Apps AB | KEVIN FISH |
Customer experience
Being Boring
Checkpoint
In-app purchases
Being Boring
No in-app purchases
Checkpoint
No in-app purchases









